Protect Reindeer from Mass Abuse
From the Blog Speak Your Mind!!!: Protect Reindeer from Mass Abuse - In Sweden and Finland, reindeer are subjected to immense suffering during large-scale round-ups and slaughter. A new investigative video from WSPA shows massive herds of reindeer being corralled, transported and slaughtered for their meat in Sweden. The footage details the immense suffering and extreme fear inflicted upon the reindeer at every stage of the increasingly-commercial process as the reindeer are frightened, mishandled and physically harmed — all of which is contrary to existing animal welfare laws in both countries. This cruelty cannot be allowed to continue. Sign this petition calling members of the Nordic Council of Ministers to uphold the Växjö Declaration and enforce existing animal welfare laws. This is the link: Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:”"; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} . Read Full Post
Who Sings Best of All?
From the Blog All Things Pakistan: Singing Leaders: Who Sings Best of All? - Adil Najam I want to revisit a question I had first posed more than a year ago: Who Sang the Best Amongst Our Leaders? But I will expand the field to not just those who ruled Pakistan (President / Prime Minister) but also those who aspire to do so. As I had mentioned in that post "the idea of a leader who can appreciate music – and good music – is an endearing one" but also that I hope I am – and also that our readers are – capable of differentiating between what we think of someone's singing ability and their political philosophy. I certainly do not, and hope you will not, react to the one on the basis of the other. With that said, here are three samples of political leaders singing (I have tried to pick samples that they may have themselves picked out): Shahbaz Sharif singing 'Akelay na jaana' ; Altaf”> Hussain singing ' BaRRey be-murawat hain yeh husn waaley ' ; and Pervaiz Musharraf singing ' Laagi rey tousey laagi, najar tousey laagi ' . Shahbaz”> Sharif: “> 'Akelay na jaana' WPvideo 1.10 Altaf”> Hussain: ' BaRRey be-murawat hain yeh ' WPvideo 1.10 Pervaiz”> Musharraf: ' Laagi rey tousey laagi ' WPvideo 1.10 I am sure, and I hope, that other leaders sing too and we will add their performances if we can find them. Meanwhile, enjoy these maestros; and do please let us know what you think of their performances. (Lets please leave a discussion of their politics for another place and another time). . Read Full Post
Facebook Draws its Relationships Visualization Graph
From the Blog PkReaders: Facebook Draws its Relationships Visualization Graph - Stats have always been well manipulated with graphs but what about 3-D visualization of them. Yes here an internee at facebook data infrastructure engineering team – Paul Butler did this. He just visualized how facebook connects 500 million users of it throughout the word. The graph shows how people are connected via facebook from one part of the world to the other. A high resolution version of this can be seen here: Facebook Visualization – 3.8MB Paul in a blog post explained how he managed to do it. I began by taking a sample of about ten million pairs of friends from Apache Hive, our data warehouse. I combined that data with each user's current city and summed the number of friends between each pair of cities. Then I merged the data with the longitude and latitude of each city. At that point, I began exploring it in R, an open-source statistics environment. As a sanity check, I plotted points at some of the latitude and longitude coordinates. To my relief, what I saw was roughly an outline of the world. Next I erased the dots and plotted lines between the points. After a few minutes of rendering, a big white blob appeared in the center of the map. Some of the outer edges of the blob vaguely resembled the continents, but it was clear that I had too much data to get interesting results just by drawing lines. I thought that making the lines semi-transparent would do the trick, but I quickly realized that my graphing environment couldn't handle enough shades of color for it to work the way I wanted. Instead I found a way to simulate the effect I wanted. I defined weights for each pair of cities as a function of the Euclidean distance between them and the number of friends between them. Then I plotted lines between the pairs by weight, so that pairs of cities with the most friendships between them were drawn on top of the others. I used a color ramp from black to blue to white, with each line's color depending on its weight. I also transformed some of the lines to wrap around the image, rather than spanning more than halfway around the world. After a few minutes of rendering, the new plot appeared, and I was a bit taken aback by what I saw. The blob had turned into a surprisingly detailed map of the world. Not only were continents visible, certain international borders were apparent as well. What really struck me, though, was knowing that the lines didn't represent coasts or rivers or political borders, but real human relationships. Each line might represent a friendship made while travelling, a family member abroad, or an old college friend pulled away by the various forces of life. Later I replaced the lines with great circle arcs, which are the shortest routes between two points on the Earth. Because the Earth is a sphere, these are often not straight lines on the projection. . Read Full Post
PML (N) Rejects RGST
From the Blog Geo Tau Aisay Pakistan!: PML (N) Rejects RGST - The Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) will not support the federal government on the issue of the Reformed General Sales Tax (RGST) and will not allow the government to increase the burden on the masses, party Chief Nawaz Sharif has said while addressing a public gathering in Sheikhupura on 11th December. Nawaz Sharif took a right stand Related posts: Senate approves RGST recommendations Pakistan sinking in sea of debt Reforms in Economy-Now or Never Consensus of all political parties on demise of merit Government offensive against TIP . Read Full Post
Facebook Maps the World!
From the Blog pakistanihousewife - > Facebook Maps the World! pakistanihousewife.com — Today, I just came across this amazing news about Facebook's influence globally. The map above is developed by joining connections of each Facebook user with his friends. The brighter lines show maximum connections and nearly a full map of the world becomes visible with some... . Read Full Post
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